Governed XDR, MDR auto-response, and threat-classifier retraining.

The regulatory perimeter inside which AI-driven security operations and continuously-retraining detection now have to operate.

  • 01AI-driven security operations (auto-isolate endpoints, auto-revoke credentials, auto-quarantine accounts, classifier-driven detection) increasingly operate outside human-in-the-loop review. SOC 2 for AI evidence schemes and the NIST AI RMF (GOVERN / MAP / MEASURE / MANAGE) establish what an auditable security-AI control looks like. ISO/IEC 42001 specifies the underlying AI management system.
  • 02EU AI Act Article 9 (risk management) and Article 12 (record-keeping) classify high-risk security AI (threat detection, biometric access, critical-infrastructure protection) as requiring documented risk management, automatic record-keeping, human oversight, and regulator-readable audit trails. Standalone systems are due 2 December 2027; embedded systems (XDR, EDR, MDR platforms) 2 August 2028 under Omnibus VII.
  • 03MITRE ATLAS (Adversarial Threat Landscape for AI Systems) provides the event taxonomy for documenting adversarial ML attacks (model poisoning, evasion, extraction) on production security AI. CMMC 2.0 Level 3 brings continuous AI-controls attestation into DoD-contractor certification, phasing through 2026 and beyond. CISA Secure-by-Design self-attestation extends the same posture to non-defense critical-infrastructure operators.
  • 04SEC Item 106 of Regulation S-K (in force December 2023) requires four-business-day disclosure of material cybersecurity incidents on Form 8-K, plus annual disclosure of governance and risk-management processes including AI-driven controls. The four-day clock is unforgiving when the decision graph that produced the response is not reproducible.
  • 05The per-decision audit record satisfies all of the above on one chain. For inference-time decisions: the action recommended, the envelope facets evaluated, the constraint scale applied (continuous, not binary allow / deny), the model attribution at the moment of the act, and the position in the per-tenant hash chain. For continuously-retraining classifiers: three independent divergence axes (behavioral, parameter, temporal) measured before the weights persist, with graduated response (constrain, freeze, rollback) signed onto the chain. Multi-tenant isolation native; zero customer-telemetry boundary.

The cybersecurity-AI regulatory surface, by the calendar.

Every framework below is enforceable today or about to be. Velma evidence is the format both sides expect.

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Sorted by soonest deadline first.

187days to enforcement
Effective Dec 16, 2026
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CMMC 2.0: Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification

DoD contractors handling Controlled Unclassified Information must achieve Level 3 certification, with continuous monitoring and per-decision evidence for any AI-driven security controls in the boundary.

Phased rollout from final rule (16 Dec 2024). Roughly 80,000 contractors affected. AI-controls evidence is becoming the binding constraint for primes and their subs.

538days to enforcement
Effective Dec 02, 2027
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EU AI Act: Article 9 + Article 12 for high-risk security AI

Threat-detection, biometric-access, and critical-infrastructure security AI classified high-risk must ship with documented risk management, automatic record-keeping, human oversight, and regulator-readable audit trails.

Standalone systems 2 Dec 2027; embedded systems (XDR / EDR / MDR platforms) 2 Aug 2028 under Omnibus VII. Fines up to 7% of global turnover. The audit-format gap is the per-decision record runtime governance closes.

Already in force

1 examinable

The examiner can cite any of these on first request.

906days examinable
Effective Dec 18, 2023
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Item 106 of Regulation S-K: Cybersecurity Disclosure

Public companies must disclose material cybersecurity incidents within four business days on Form 8-K, with annual disclosure of governance and risk-management processes including AI-driven security controls.

In force. The four-day clock is unforgiving when the decision graph that produced the response is not reproducible. Audit-chain governance closes the materiality-attribution gap.

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